Introducing GFSC

Helping Communities
Build Resilience and
Self-Reliance
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Leader Ou
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Ac k
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Global Facilitator Service Corps, Inc. © 2010

GFSC provides mentoring,
methods, and materials to
strengthen community
resilience in times of
crisis and change.


Rebuilding and Strengthening…

• Social Networks

• Sense of Community

• Group Resilience


Enhancing Local Resources…
• All those who help build a community

• Teachers, doctors, pastors, social
workers, community elders, and
many others
• Facilitators with
important core skills

…with additional
skills for crisis
situations.

Strengthening Local Capacity

• Local leaders & local facilitators know
local community, needs, culture

• Outsiders may have limited ability, and
sometimes, a dependence and rescue
mindset

GFSC Model

• Based on social learning

• Helps facilitators think and
act effectively

• Helps groups and communities move
through crisis to rebuilding and
recovery

• Works alongside and continues after
the work of other organizations


Social Learning Model
Group-based,
Group-based,
experiential

Living and
Living and
working
working
Learn New skills
and ways
together
together
to to live

Develop as Jacques DeLors
a person 1999

Crisis

• present in every
• present in every
Danger change/transition
change/transition
• reactions are normal,
• reactions are normal,
natural and necessary
natural and necessary
Opportunity • never takes away the
• never takes away the
ability to make choices
ability to make choices


Resilience…
“The ability to face internal or external crisis
and effectively resolve it, learn from it, be
strengthened by it and emerge transformed,
both individually and as a group.”
(Brenson-Lazan, 2003)
Requires

§ Personal Development

§ Interpersonal Development

§ Vision

§ Strategic Thinking
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GFSC Crisis to Resilience
Workshop
Crisis > Change > Choice:
Building Personal & Community Resilience
• Learn as a community
ship
Leader Ou
tlo
• Recognize initial reactions Ac o k
? tio
ns
• Identify effective/ineffective
behaviors and outlook
• Apply effective leadership styles
• Care for ourselves while caring for others
• Help local community plan how to share
model (cascade throughout community)
For facilitators, agencies
and community leaders

GFSC Model at Work

• 1986, volcano and avalanche, Armero,
Colombia: Facilitative Crisis & Disaster
Intervention strategy developed in response to
destruction of entire town and loss of 30,000
people.

• 1998, Hurricane Mitch, Nicaragua: initially
trained 28 professionals who then volunteered
in communities reaching more than 11,000
people in one year.

• 1999, Earthquake, Taipei, Taiwan:
200 facilitators trained to work with first
responders and community leaders.

GFSC Model at Work

• 2000, City Vargas, Venezuela:
20 facilitators trained to work with educators,
psychologists and community leaders.

• 2001, New York, 9 /11 Terrorist
Attack: GFSC volunteers shared grief
processing techniques.

• 2002, FARC terrorist attacks, Bojayá,
Colombia: 25 priests and social action
leaders formed team to help survivors,
reaching hundreds of community leaders.


GFSC Model at Work
• 2004, Tsunami in Indonesia: Virtual
Mentoring to apply GFSC techniques and
translate materials and intervention model
into Bahasa.

• 2005, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA:
initially 4 local facilitators trained 20 more local
volunteers; formed a local network and
conducted 20+ workshops reaching hundreds.

• 2006, Quito, Ecuador, Volcano
Tungurahua:
25 facilitators trained to work with
affected communities.

GFSC Model at Work
• 2006, Los Angeles, CA, Mayor’s Office of
Emergency Preparedness: 30 professionals
trained, then volunteered to lead workshops in their
communities, reaching 300+ within one year.

• 2007, Bush Fires, Melbourne, Australia:
60 facilitators trained to work with local
communities devastated by fires.

• 2009, Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan: Virtual
Mentoring and distance learning seminar for
20 facilitators previously trained by GFSC.


GFSC Model at Work
• 2010, after Earthquake in Haiti: prepared 16
Haitian professionals for long-term work attending to
psycho-social needs of Haitian population.

• 2010, after Earthquake, Santiago, Chile: GFSC
workshop for 20+ experienced facilitators, committed
to working with devastated communities throughout
Chile.

• 2010, Philippines: disaster management
workshop for education consortium of 11
Southeast Asian countries, and planning future
collaborative disaster management training,
facilitation and research.

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• We believe that people and communities are capable of
self-determination and that facilitation is an effective
catalyst to build, rebuild and sustain self-reliant
communities.

• Through our support of volunteer facilitators
worldwide, Global Facilitator Service Corps strengthens
the capacity of communities to work through their
challenges and create sustainable solutions.

• By sharing our knowledge, experience, and caring, we
enable communities and the institutions that serve
them, to identify and achieve their goals.


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